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You know, apart from STVI, has it ever been said on-screen that the Rommies and Klingons are in the Beta Quadrant?
Talking to people who watch DS9 (and maybe TNG), but don't read up on Star Trek, they got the impression that everyone is in the Alpha Quadrant. In fact, DS9 seemed to be quite specifi most of the time saying that it was the "Alpha Quadrant races" against the Dominion.
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Were that our only source, I would tend to agree. But the fact that people like Sternbach and Okuda, who are the people who presumably field such questions as "Hey, what quadrant are those Klingon dudes in again?" have come out with references to said empires being in the Beta Quadrant suggests that the two are, in fact, there. I think.
You've also got the evidence from Voyager, where the Romulans stealing the Prometheus make a beeline towards the Beta Quadrant.
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Yeah, I know Okuda and Sternbach say they're in the Beta Quadrant, but, honestly, how many people who watch the show have access to that information? Most non-obsessive viewers only know what they are told. And they were told repeatedly that all the good old TOS and TNG regular aliens were in the Alpha Quadrant.
If they started to reference the Beta Quadrant at great length suddenly, it would confuse a lot of people. At this point, wouldn't it be easier for them to just lump everyone in the AQ, and ignore two lines in a movie, and one line in an episode?
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I suppose it would be. But so far they have not, so I'm guessing they have their reasons for keeping things as we think they are, even if they don't bring that information up very often.
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You know... if we ignore the 'Okuda/Sternback' version of things - we could reset the skew-iff quadrants back to the cartesian norm... that would then explain away the lack of mention of the Beta Quadrant on Voyager's jouney back home!
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From what ive heard rommies have a little AQ territory while klingons could have uptp a 1/3 of their territory in AQ.
The map im doing with cardie space long ways parallal to A/B border has DS9 about 5 sectors off the line and a 150 ly fed inner perimeter (tip off the hat to TOS StarTrek Maps) + 50.3 ly to SB375 + 30 odd ly to DS9 DS9-Earth app. 230 ly Prob similar dist. to Romulus and Q'onos.
I of course rotated my space 90 degree right to reflect diff between trek and real maps.
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